Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston,Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and one of the founding members of Beth Israel Lahey Health. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital. Among independent teaching hospitals,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has ranked in the top three recipients of biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Research funding totals nearly $200 million annually. BIDMC researchers run more than 850 active sponsored projects and 200 clinical trials. The Harvard-Thorndike General Clinical Research Center,the oldest clinical research laboratory in the United States,has been located on this site since 1973.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University,located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston,Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers,the nation's first graduate training program in population health,which was founded in 1913 and then became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.
Mass General Brigham (MGB) is a not-for-profit,integrated health care system that engages in medical research,teaching,and patient care. It is the largest hospital-based research enterprise in the United States,with annual funding of more than $2 billion. The system's annual revenue was nearly $18 billion in 2022. It is also an educational institution,founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. The system provides clinical care through two academic hospitals,three specialty hospitals,seven community hospitals,home care services,a health insurance plan,and a robust network of specialty practices,urgent care facilities,and outpatient clinics/surgical centers. It is the largest private employer in Massachusetts. In 2023,the system reported that from 2017–2021 its overall economic impact was $53.4 billion –more than the annual state budget.
Brigham and Women's Hospital is the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston,Massachusetts. Along with Massachusetts General Hospital,it is one of the two founding members of Mass General Brigham,the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts. Robert Higgins,MD,MSHA serves as the hospital's current president.
Paul Edward Farmer was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University,where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health (PIH),an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. He was professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Howard Kyongju Koh is the former United States Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009.
Carola Blitzman Eisenberg was an Argentine-American psychiatrist who became the first woman to hold the position of Dean of Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1990,she was the dean of student affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She was a long-time lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS. She was also both a founding member of Physicians for Human Rights and an honorary psychiatrist with the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After retiring,she was involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights,the Institute for Healthcare Improvement,and elsewhere. She turned 100 in September 2017 and died in Lincoln,Massachusetts,in March 2021 at the age of 103.
Perri Klass is an American pediatrician and writer who has published extensively about her medical training and pediatric practice. Among her subjects have been the issues of women in medicine,relationships between doctors and patients,and children and literacy. She is the author of both fiction and nonfiction novels,stories,essays,and journalism. Klass is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University,and Medical Director of Reach Out and Read,a national childhood literacy program that works through doctors and nurses to encourage parents to read aloud to young children,and to give them the books they need to do it. She is a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and has been nominated by the President of the United States to the Advisory Board of the National Institute For Literacy.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) is a community teaching medical center located in Newton,Massachusetts on Washington Street. It is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. Founded in 1881,part of its campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District.
Christine M. Griffin is an American lawyer. From 2011 to 2013 she served as Assistant Secretary for Disability Policies and Programs for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI),formerly New England Healthcare Institute is a member-based,non-partisan research and policy organization.
Michael Alan Grodin is Professor of Health Law,Bioethics,and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health,where he has received the distinguished Faculty Career Award for Research and Scholarship,and 20 teaching awards,including the "Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching." He is also Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. In addition,Dr. Grodin is the Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies,and a member of the faculty of the Division of Religious and Theological Studies. He has been on the faculty at Boston University for 35 years. He completed his B.S. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,his M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,and his postdoctoral and fellowship training at UCLA and Harvard University.
Martin (Maish) L. Yarmush is an academic,American scientist,physician,and engineer known for his work in biotechnology and bioengineering. His faculty career began in 1984 at MIT in the Department of Chemical Engineering as a Principal Research Associate and Lucille P. Markey Scholar in Biomedical Science. In 1988 he joined Rutgers University,as Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and a member of the Center of Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. In 1995,he returned to the Boston area to serve as the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology,and to establish the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Teaching Hospitals. In 2007 he returned to Rutgers to hold the Paul and Mary Monroe Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering and serve as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He also holds a Lecturer in Surgery and Bioengineering position at Harvard Medical School,and is a member of the Senior Scientific Staff at the Shriners children's hospital in Boston.
Sachin H. Jain is an American physician who held leadership positions in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). From 2015 to 2020,he served as president and chief executive officer of the CareMore Health System. In June 2020,it was announced that he would join the SCAN Group and Health Plan as its new president and CEO. He is also adjunct professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a Contributor at Forbes. In 2018,he was named one of American healthcare's most 100 most influential leaders by Modern Healthcare magazine (#36).
The Massachusetts "Death with Dignity" Initiative,also known as Question 2,appeared on the November 6,2012 general election ballot in the state of Massachusetts as an indirect initiated state statute to allow physician-assisted suicide. The measure was filed with the Massachusetts Attorney General and would establish,according to those who filed the measure,an "Act Relative to Death with Dignity". The petition number for the initiative was 11-12,and was filed by Michael Clarke as "An Initiative Petition for an Act Relative to Death with Dignity".
Vivian Winona Pinn is an American physician-scientist and pathologist known for her advocacy of women's health issues and concerns,particularly for ensuring that federally funded medical studies include female patients,and well as encouraging women to follow medical and scientific careers. She served as associate director for research on women's health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),concurrently was the inaugural director of NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health. Pinn previously taught at Harvard University,Tufts University,and Howard University College of Medicine. Since retiring from NIH in 2011,Pinn has continued working as a senior scientist emerita at the Fogarty International Center.
Lisa I. Iezzoni is an American medical researcher with expertise in health policy. She is a professor at Harvard Medical School,as well as the director of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is known for her research on health disparities among people with disabilities.
Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola is an American family physician,public health professional,author,professor,and women's empowerment leader. She is the Senior Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer of Humana and a chair and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Prior to her appointment at OSU,she served as the inaugural Chief Clinical Transformation Officer for RubiconMD,an eConsult platform that improves primary care access to specialty care for underserved patients. Olayiwola is dedicated to serving marginalized patient populations and addressing the social determinants through community and technology-based infrastructures of healthcare reform. She has published articles on the use of eConsults and telehealth to provide underserved patients with primary care treatments so that they have a low cost and efficient means of reaching specialized care. Olayiwola has founded numerous non-profits and healthcare start-ups such as GIRLTALK Inc,Inspire Health Solutions LLC,and the Minority Women Professionals are MVPs Program. She has been recognized at the national and international level for her work and efforts to educate,advocate and provide healthcare to those in need. She was named Woman of the Year by the American Telemedicine Association in 2019,and received the Public Health Innovator Award from Harvard School of Public Health in 2019,as well as being named one of America's Top Family Doctors from 2007 to 2008 by the Consumers Research Council of America.
Mandy Krauthamer Cohen is an American internist,public health official,and healthcare executive serving as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since July 10,2023. She was previously the executive vice president at Aledade and chief executive officer of Aledade Care Solution,a healthcare company.
Katrina Alison Armstrong is an American internist. She is the chief executive officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Armstrong is the first woman to lead Columbia's medical school and medical center. She was the first woman to hold the position of Physician-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
